Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Embodied Knowledge(also: Embodied expertise, Lived knowledge)
- Knowledge that is grounded in bodily experience rather than externally observable behaviour or abstract rule - the kind of knowing a person who stutters has about the tension before a block, a blind person has about which photo crops preserve meaning, or a Deaf signer has about…
- Emotional Agency
- The ability of an individual to independently manage their emotional responses and experiences, particularly when encountering sensitive or personal information. In the context of accessibility and generative AI, emotional agency refers to the capacity of blind and low vision…
- Epistemic Barrier(also: Knowledge Barrier, Epistemic Divide)
- A barrier to collaboration or understanding that arises from fundamental differences in knowledge systems, expertise, values, and ways of knowing between groups. In the context of sign language AI development, epistemic barriers exist between machine learning practitioners (who…
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